Mike Mallo, IBM TADDM expert provides the following details on our first ever Sensor day below:

Sensor writers made up of TADDM developers, services, and best practices teams will spend a day with you to write new sensors. Since we are targeting the new "simpler to write" community sensors for this program, we suspect it will take one to two days to complete the sensors with the sensor writers.

Here's how it works. You provide the environment and domain knowledge for the sensor writers to build an application sensor. Setup the application to be discovered on a non-production server that you can make available to the sensor writer so there is no impact to production systems during the sensor writing process. Identify the key configuration files and configuration parameters (up to 10) that TADDM should collect with this sensor.

The sensor writer will write the sensor and make it available for testing, and ultimately for publishing on our TADDM community exchange site.

A few notes:

Since the intent is to benefit the community with these sensors, we are only looking to build sensors for commercially available applications, which others in the community will benefit from as well, such as applications on our hit list: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivoliaddm/Sensor+Hit+List

IBM does not support PMRs or APARs on these community sensors. Since the sensor source code gets published with the sensor, community members are free to modify, recertify, and repost to add any capability or fix any issues. As usual IBM supports related TADDM product issues under your current support agreement.

April 13, 2009 is our first TADDM Community Sensor Day. Please show your interest by using the "Submit Feedback" link on the TADDM Community at http://ibm.com/tivoli/community/taddm to receive further logistics and details. Submission deadline is April 8, 2009.

On behalf of the IBM TADDM team, I'd like to thank you for the great response to the first ever TADDM Community Sensor Day to help grow our TADDM community! We had lots of folks interested in sensor day because you helped us spread the news of the event pretty far.

While we had lots of interest, we were only able to work with a handful of clients to build a sensor with us on the first sensor day. We also collaborated with some internal IBM teams. The list of sensors produced include: Informix, Managed Objects, Rational Team Concert server, Microsoft Office SharePoint server, and TADDM.

As the sensors complete certification, they will be published on the TADDM exchange site. The first two sensors, Rational Team Concert and Microsoft Office SharePoint server, are available today at http://tinyurl.com/d8yb3f.

Mike Mallo, IBM TADDM expert provides the following details on the event below:

Sensor
writers made up of TADDM developers, services, and best practices teams
will spend a day with you to write new sensors. Since we are targeting
the new "simpler to write" community sensors for this program, we suspect it will take one to two days to complete the sensors with the sensor writers.

Here's
how it works. You provide the environment and domain knowledge for the
sensor writers to build an application sensor. Setup the application to
be discovered on a non-production server that you can make available to
the sensor writer so there is no impact to production systems during
the sensor writing process. Identify the key configuration files and
configuration parameters (up to 10) that TADDM should collect with this
sensor.

The
sensor writer will write the sensor and make it available for testing,
and ultimately for publishing on our TADDM community exchange site.

IBM
does not support PMRs or APARs on these community sensors. Since the
sensor source code gets published with the sensor, community members
are free to modify, recertify, and repost to add any capability or fix
any issues. As usual IBM supports related TADDM product issues under
your current support agreement.

June 17 is the next TADDM Community Sensor Day. Please show your interest by using the "Submit Feedback" link on the TADDM Community at http://ibm.com/tivoli/community/taddm to receive further logistics and details. Submission deadline is May 28, 2009.

-----------------TADDM v7.2 beta program
IBM is looking for volunteers for the TADDM v7.2 beta program. Are you
a customer or IBM Business Partner who would like to install the beta
code in your test environment and provide feedback to development on
the new release? IBM will provide you with beta code, draft
documentation, education via web conferences on new features, and
support via an on-line discussion forum.